A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great to read by a pool or on a plane, it was fair game. Scroll down to find tried-and-true recommendations for mysteries, memoirs, essays and, of course, romance.
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
Happy Hour: A Novel by Marlowe Granados
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Interestings: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer
All the Missing Girls: A Novel by Megan Miranda
Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by André Aciman
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
Who is Maud Dixon?: A Novel by Alexandra Andrews
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston
No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol
Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell
The Wedding Crasher: A Novel by Mia Sosa
The Summer Place: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This list was produced by Beth Novey and edited by Maureen Pao and Meghan Collins Sullivan.
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